Ephesians 2:13

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Ephesians 2:13

But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.

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that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying:

For behold, they that are far from thee shall perish; thou destroyest every one that goeth a whoring from thee.

And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, standing as a banner of the peoples: the nations shall seek it; and his resting-place shall be glory.

Therefore glorify Jehovah in the east, the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel, in the isles of the west.

I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the end of the earth,

Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.

I create the fruit of the lips: peace, peace to him that is afar off, and to him that is nigh, saith Jehovah; and I will heal him.

Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons come from afar, and thy daughters are carried upon the side.

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow; to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory: and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

Jehovah, my strength and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of distress, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and they shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited falsehood and vanity; and in these things there is no profit.

For to you is the promise and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God may call.

Simon has related how God first visited to take out of the nations a people for his name.

And he said to me, Go, for I will send thee to the nations afar off.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

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and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Much rather therefore, having been now justified in the power of his blood, we shall be saved by him from wrath.

And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

We are ambassadors therefore for Christ, God as it were beseeching by us, we entreat for Christ, Be reconciled to God.

who has delivered us from the authority of darkness, and translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love:

Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.

knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible things, as silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from your fathers,

for Christ indeed has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God; being put to death in flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,

And they sing a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open its seals; because thou hast been slain, and hast redeemed to God, by thy blood, out of every tribe, and tongue, and people, and nation,